Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

I'm not going to write much here about the finale of TWIN PEAKS. I'm
going with what I wrote on Sunday night, the starting point. Which ended
up being the film FIRE WALK WITH ME, not the original show. (Which
makes sense, since I've mentioned being unfamiliar with the show prior
to S3.)

I do believe there are multiple realities. I dream them, and I am often
not crippled. So to extend that idea, I also feel as if there are dead
timelines. Ghosts walking a certain distance, dancing, snoring on the
couch,, all quiet and all repeating everything as if it is a loop of
silent film. Not a collapsed timeline, but a dead one.

Laura Palmer screams in FIRE WALK WITH ME. In the finale, Dale Cooper
saves her from being murdered, and changes the timeline. I want to call
it a now-dead timeline, in the sense that David Lynch and Mark Frost are
so cool with ghosts and spirits and David Bowie as a teapot. It would
explain the multiple images and blurred images seen throughout the
eighteen episodes.

The show ends with Dale Cooper as "Richard" and Laura Palmer as "Carrie
Paige". Cooper asks what year it is (are they past the viewing
audience's year?), Laura hears her mother, Sarah, saying her name in the
darkness of Laura's old bedroom. Palmer/Paige screams and it is the
scream we hear from FWWM. That is, Sheryl Lee can still scream pretty
damn good. So. My thoughts.

From the point that Cooper changes history in 1989 until 2013 or 2017,
the timeline is dead. Not until Laura Palmer screams at the end of 318
does the timeline become alive again.

In reverse. The ghost images at Jackrabbit's Palace, Bing looking for
Billy at the R&R and the customers changing position. The scream
recreated the timeline, but altered it. All the characters still exist,
but some may have different professions, different fates. Different
names.

I'm still thinking about that last minute before the credits because I
know damn well there are other realities. What year is this? Part of me
angry because I am as much in pain as I was when the show and film were
aired. My life hasn't changed in that respect. I've aged. So that is
what gave me nightmares on Labor Day morning. Awake yet asleep, going to
bed at 4AM and waking at exactly 6:45AM. What year is this? At least
Laura brought it back with the bookends of her screams.